After a Cannon Fodder and a Broken Engagement Dragon Prodigy Started Dating Online

Pei Chuping only realized the world didn't revolve around him when he saw the down-and-out man his sister had broken off her engagement with.

This world was a novel about a domineering hero who rises to power after his engagement is called off. The poor, uncouth bumpkin practically had "Don't bully a poor young man" written all over him, and he was the protagonist of this world.

A Matchmaker System appeared out of nowhere in Pei Chuping's mind, sobbing and wailing that it had bound itself to the wrong person, then corrected him through tears:

[He's not some poor, uncouth bumpkin. He's a super-rich CEO who can bring the world to its knees, a hotshot business tycoon, an award-winning angel investor, and the legendary engagement-breakoff hero, Xiao, ]

Pei Chuping: Big ice cube.

Matchmaker System: ...He's Xiao Yingjiang, the domineering hero.

[Host, did you know? Xiao Yingjiang was supposed to end his legendary life surrounded by children and grandchildren. But, for some unknown reason, even though he achieved great success, he stayed away from romance and died alone.]

[That seriously contradicts the story of a domineering hero surrounded by concubines. We Matchmaker Systems will never allow this to happen!]

Pei Chuping doesn't understand. What does that have to do with me?

[Because a poor young man must never be underestimated! After Xiao Yingjiang rose to power, every member of the Pei family who had broken off his engagement or humiliated him met with disaster.]

The Matchmaker System looks at him through tear-filled eyes. [Host, I was supposed to bind myself to your sister. Though I mistakenly bound myself to you, you don't want the Pei family to go bankrupt, your parents to go to prison, and you to end up on the streets, do you?]

Pei Chuping feels a headache coming on. So?

[So you have to fall in love with Xiao Yingjiang, who was supposed to die alone, then find him a whole bunch of concubines and take charge of his harem.]

Pei Chuping: ...

*

Pei Chuping has spent twenty carefree years as a menace to society. His reputation terrifies everyone in the capital, and online he can juggle eight hundred accounts, each one a magnet for chaos.

But after this moronic System binds itself to him, this perfectly fine catch has to figure out how to date a straight man who's also a domineering hero, and then find him a whole harem?

Just as Pei Chuping is about to reject the idea outright, he discovers that the domineering hero is a "devoted fan" of one of his burner accounts.

Thinking of what happens to him and the Pei family in the story, the energetic Pei Chuping decides to conceal his gender and mess with the domineering hero a little.

*

After the Pei family humiliates Xiao Yingjiang, he receives a private message from their lawless youngest son. The sender's attitude is ambiguous, and Xiao Yingjiang assumes this is just another way for the Pei family to humiliate him.

Xiao Yingjiang had planned to ignore Pei Chuping, but that night, Pei Chuping sends him a photo of his legs.

Xiao Yingjiang: ?

*

After Pei Chuping and Xiao Yingjiang successfully start an online relationship, Pei Chuping is outrageously difficult.

Xiao Yingjiang has to obey him absolutely, never ignore him, and never disagree with him. Pei Chuping threatens to break up with him at the drop of a hat...

And in real life, Pei Chuping is always giving Xiao Yingjiang a hard time, too. Though he secretly helps Xiao Yingjiang get together with the women who were supposed to be in his original harem, he openly and brazenly trips Xiao Yingjiang up at every turn.

Xiao Yingjiang: ...

The Matchmaker System breaks down. [Host, you're being way too difficult! Xiao Yingjiang likes gentle, sweet people! Once he finds out who you are, you'll die even more horribly than you do in the original story!]

The still-panicking System: [Host, the goal is to help the domineering hero find love, not turn him into a hopeless lovesick fool who lives by his husband's word...]

The System breaks down again. [Aaaah, Host, you've been exposed! Is the domineering hero going to bring the Pei family to its knees now? We should run!]

*

Much later, Pei Chuping asks Xiao Yingjiang how he figured out that he was the one he'd been dating online.

Xiao Yingjiang thinks for a moment, then says, "I followed that account because we'd argued before. You spent three hours insulting me without repeating a single insult. During that time, you said, 'I'm from the Pei family,' and asked what godforsaken hole I crawled out of."

Pei Chuping: ovo

A fiery, larger-than-life cannon-fodder top × a domineering hero bottom who's just as wild but hopelessly lovesick

Notes:

1. Protagonist is the top, one-on-one.

2. They're both each other's only one, but a cannon-fodder character has a one-sided crush on the top. The top is adored by everyone.

Theme: Face the storms together and light the way through life.